Is Quarto Compatible with Windows Task Scheduler?

[mm225022]

I have been able to schedule RMarkdown reports to be generated automatically via the Windows Task Scheduler. John Mackintosh's post was quite helpful for troubleshooting.
However, I have been unable to reproduce the automation via Task Scheduler for Quarto.
I tried, unsuccessfully, to schedule a Quarto report with Task Scheduler.
I took the same report, converted it to an RMarkdown report, ran the same R script (except this time calling render as opposed to quarto_render) and it ran via Window's Task Scheduler.
Is there anything else that I need to do to automate a Quarto report via Window's Task Scheduler? Is it possible to to this? Is there any other preferred way?
Thanks

[cderv]

I would say there is nothing specific about Quarto that would prevent running from task scheduler using any of the approach in the post.

Quarto is CLI tool first, so I would use a .bat (cmd) or .ps1 (powershell) script that would call quarto render for your document.
If you want to go the R way, then you can use the quarto R package indeed.

Only thing you need to take care of is be sure that Windows can find quarto binary from the scheduled tasks. I am thinking that if you are using Quarto only from RStudio for example, the CLI tool won't be in PATH, and only accessible from within RStudio IDE.
If you install Quarto with installer (https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/) then it should be put in PATH.

With R package you can also set the QUARTO_PATH environment variable to point to the Quarto binary if needed.

I think this is a configuration issue you are encountering. Windows task scheduler should be working with any program - unless I am unaware of some limitation.

If you have some error message to share, I can try help further

[mm225022]

Thank you @cderv, that fixed it.
In my original file, I had the path to Pandoc - Sys.setenv(RSTUDIO_PANDOC = 'C:/Program Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/tools'). Based on what you wrote, I added the Path to the Quarto binary - Sys.setenv(QUARTO_PATH = 'C:/Program Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.exe').

It now works.

Thanks!

[cderv]

Glad it works ! Path to PANDOC shouldn't be needed if you are using Quarto. I wouldn't set it unless you are using rmarkdown::render() directly in your process too.

[johnmackintosh]

Just in case this helps anyone else-

I was testing setting a job up with quarto and could not get the task to run with

Sys.setenv(QUARTO_PATH = 'C:/Program Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto.exe')

However, removing the .exe worked and the job has run via scheduler and .bat file

Sys.setenv(QUARTO_PATH = 'C:/Program Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/quarto')

(I don't have the CLI installed so running this via R script and the {quarto} package)

[cderv]

Which version of Quarto are you running ? Maybe this is an old one when .exe file was not available yet.

[johnmackintosh]

I have Quarto version 1.2.269
R version 4.2.2
RStudio 2022.12.0

[cderv]

I have Quarto version 1.2.269

Quarto 1.3 was released today. Can you update to this one ?

[johnmackintosh]

I can't update quarto, but having updated RStudio (which appears to be quarto version 1.2.475?) and now I do need to specify the .exe extension. Thanks